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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Karen Medina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com">kmedina67@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<div>Sometimes it feels like we are a small group of people trying to push a huge boulder* up a steep mountain.</div>
<div><br></div>With a small movement of the boulder in any direction, some of those pushing will fall away. The rest who want to keep pushing have to regain good footing and push some more. </blockquote>
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<div>A very good, Sisyphean metaphor. You've also got the folks who say, "Why should I be pushng this boulder up the mountain when it's so hard and I'm so ambivalent about it anyway? I've got mine!"</div>
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<div>But it makes me wonder how other things happened so quickly: like the "no child left behind" and the "patriot act" and the "clean air act"? </div></blockquote>
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<div>A most excellent question. The Patriot Act was aided by the irrational fear created by and in the aftermath of 9/11. I don't know why the other two were so uncontroversial. The education of children, like health care, affects quite a number of Americans in a very direct way.</div>
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<div>Okay, thanks to this discussion, I am getting over the first mourning stage of denial and almost ready to move to the next stage. </div>
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<div>-karen medina<br>
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<div>*The boulder is the elected officials, the political parties, and it is our fellow countrypeople. </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
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